Word: politicians
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what White House staffers, with straight faces, called a "nonpolitical" weekend trip. In speeches in South Dakota, Colorado and California, he stuck mainly to bipartisan subjects of interest in the West: conservation and reclamation, water and power, floods and dams. But he well knew that for a politician there is no such thing as a nonpolitical handshake -and that the folks beaming up at him would suffer no amnesia on election...
Said Kennedy in his speech: "I believe all Californians will long remember the water leadership of Pat Brown." Greater tribute no politician could hope...
...strong-and bitterly opposing-views. Missouri's Senator Stuart Symington is a millionaire businessman (Emerson Electric) turned liberal Democratic politician. Ohio's George Magoffin Humphrey is a millionaire businessman who served from 1953 to 1957 as Dwight Eisenhower's rock-solid conservative Treasury Secretary. Last week Symington and Humphrey faced each other at a Senate Armed Services Subcommittee hearing-and the result was an explosion of wrath and recrimination...
...Humphrey's appearance, Symington held on to his temper. But offstage, Humphrey told a Christian Science Monitor reporter that "they don't dare attack Ike direct so they are attacking me. This is a stab in the back." Now if there is any way to infuriate a politician, it is to accuse him of playing politics-and when he heard of Humphrey's remark, Symington blew up. "You Don't Dare!" When the subcommittee met next morning, Chairman Symington was still flushed with anger...
...Respectively, a puppet, and hence "a politician acting under an outsider's order"; a Scottish word for common sense; a soup for prisoners or sailors; a mixture of rum and spruce beer; and a blockhead...